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Former featured article candidateNarragansett Pier Railroad is a former featured article candidate. Please view the links under Article milestones below to see why the nomination was archived. For older candidates, please check the archive.
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Article milestones
DateProcessResult
June 13, 2024Good article nomineeListed
August 7, 2024Featured article candidateNot promoted
Did You Know
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on July 20, 2024.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the owners of the Narragansett Pier Railroad included a family of industrialists, a dentist, a systems analyst, a lumberyard, and the founder of Textron?
Current status: Former featured article candidate, current good article

GA Review

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This review is transcluded from Talk:Narragansett Pier Railroad/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Nominator: Trainsandotherthings (talk · contribs) 20:41, 26 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewer: Hog Farm (talk · contribs) 19:55, 28 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]


I will review this soon. Hog Farm Talk 19:55, 28 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Spot checks:

  • "The monopoly allegation was also made in 1898 by proponents of a new steamboat wharf in Narragansett Pier that would connect to Providence, who pointed to the railroad's high rates (at the time 50 cents between Kingston and Narragansett pier) and surcharges on coal shipments" - supported
  • "However, Bacon sold it for scrap two months later when a financing plan with the towns along its route fell through." - source only indicates that Bacon planned to scrap the entire railroad property, not that he specifically sold the railcar
    The sentence is meant to refer to the entire railroad, not the railcar. Changed to make this clearer. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 03:03, 2 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • "Narragansett Pier Railroad 11 was also saved at the time of abandonment, and after spending a number of years at the Middletown and New Jersey Railroad it was obtained and restored by the Everett Railroad in Pennsylvania in 2015" - checks out
  • "the town of Narragansett agreed in June 1920 to suspend the railroad's taxes for five years" - checks out
  • "nfortunately for the state, by the time the Interstate Commerce Commission gave the railroad permission to abandon the segment, work on the bridge had progressed to the point it was cheaper to complete it than to abandon its construction" - checks out

This is in good shape; placing on hold. Hog Farm Talk 00:26, 2 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Hog Farm: I imagine the ongoing RfA is taking up most of your attention right now - I had a book on the railroad come in the other day and I'm going to be making significant changes to the article. You may want to give the article another look over once I'm done, but that's up to you. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 17:33, 9 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Just ping me when you're done revamping the article and I'll take another look. Hog Farm Talk 18:56, 9 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Hog Farm: I will expand this more in the future with the goal of taking this to FAC, but for now I think it's in good enough shape for GA. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 17:57, 11 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Did you know nomination

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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by SL93 talk 21:19, 12 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A Narragansett Pier Railroad train in 1936
A Narragansett Pier Railroad train in 1936
Improved to Good Article status by Trainsandotherthings (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 29 past nominations.

Trainsandotherthings (talk) 20:10, 17 June 2024 (UTC).[reply]

  • Approving on good faith. Article is long enough and promoted to GA four days before DYK nom. Article is presentable, well-sourced, and free from copyvio. Hook is interesting, source is acceptable on good faith. Image meets criteria. QPQ done. Nothing else to comment on from me. Thank you for your nomination Trainsandotherthings! Kimikel (talk) 03:34, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Narragansett Pier Railroad engine #1 in 1876
Narragansett Pier Railroad engine #1 in 1876